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  • MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 17th OF APRIL 2025

    PRESENT: Simona, Liz, Alan, Nathan, Cathy, Harry, Heather APOLOGIES: Tricia, Sarah, Hilary NEWS: WRITING COMPETITIONS: It was agreed that for a period of 3 months, the Minutes would include a section on current writing competitions, to see whether WWC members found this useful. No attempt would be made to provide a comprehensive list, or to… →

  • Mouse Time

    By Heather Cook Please join us in celebrating our dear Writers Circle member, Heather, and her winning 2nd prize in this year’s Arundel Literary Festival Poetry Competition with Mouse Time: My year is not your year. I know no clocks, alarms, appointments; I do not measure time, imposing order so that I might live forever.… →

  • MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 20th OF MARCH 2025

    APOLOGIES: Tricia, Keith, Alan PRESENT: Catherine, Harry, Nathan, Liz, Heather, Simona, Sarah NEWS:1. Heather shared her latest project which she hopes to publish into a pamphlet which stemmed from her battle with cancer. The pamphlet will be titled Beware the Exploding Yoghurt Pot, where she aimed to capture raw thoughts, balancing light-heartedness with some darker… →

  • Art, Music and Literature – The medium is the message, a blogpost by Keith Elliot

    I have been thinking about the series of haikus presented a few meetings ago, and one of my poems which were both supposed to be picture prompt responses. I realised that unless you see the picture it is difficult to know whether the poem is describing the picture or your personal response to it. Ultimately… →

  • MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 20th OF FEBRUARY 2025

    APOLOGIES: Nathan, Heather, AlanPRESENT: Katherine, Tricia, Tony, Liz, Sarah, Keith A round of introductions and a run though of how the meetings are managed, took place for Tony, a visitor for this month. NEWS: READINGSKeith shared a blog article he wrote, inspired by Liz’s previously presented series of haikus capturing her experience of the ‘Frameless’… →

  • On The Edge

    Nathan, the youngest member of our Writers Circle, is a poet whose work lingers long after the final word has been read. Having honed his craft for many years, his poetry, while yet to be formally published, shows the kind of promise that suggests a literary breakthrough is imminent. His writing is unflinching, often exploring… →

  • MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 16th OF JANUARY 2025

    PRESENT: Tricia, Nathan, Simona, Catherine, Liz APOLOGIES: Natasha, Sarah, Alan, Heather NEWS: READINGS: Homework – ‘No!’ Chairperson – Tricia Wine – Nathan Milk & biscuits – Sarah Minutes – Simona The next meeting will be held on 20 February 2025. →

  • MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 21st of NOVEMBER 2024

    Apologies: Alan, Sarah, Nathan, Peter, Heather Present: Catherine, Tricia, Keith, Simona, Liz NEWS READINGS Tricia presented her new play, which stood out for its lack of the typical dramatic tension. She explained that the inspiration for the play came from her experience witnessing Saf’s stress when her parents were visiting, which led to some interesting… →

  • MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 18th of OCTOBER 2024

    Present: Nathan, Simona, Sarah, Alan, Tricia, Keith, Olivia, Liz, Peter, Hayden  Apologies: Harry, Heather  Introductions for Hayden, a welcome visitor.   NEWS  READINGS  Hayden shared the first chapter of his book, written in March 2019 in Oxford. Keith inquired about the intended audience, while Peter noted that although there were some strong elements, certain parts might… →

  • Materuni Falls

    Woking Writers Circle hopes you enjoy Tricia’s second instalment of her Tanzania Adventures, as much as we did: I’d said to my friend that I wasn’t keen to visit the Serengeti or wildlife parks. Human life interests me more. I’m not averse to natural features especially waterfalls. I was lucky enough to visit Victoria falls… →